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TNB Tech Minute: Reddit Sues Anthropic, Alleging Unauthorized Data Use

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Plus, Meta courts Disney, A24 and other Hollywood studios for exclusive content to be featured on its upcoming VR headset. And cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike says it's cooperating with federal authorities over last year’s outage that delayed thousands of flights. Julie Chang hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:32.3

Here's your TNB Tech Minute for Wednesday, June 4th.

0:36.0

I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

0:38.6

Reddit is suing Anthropic, saying the AI startup used the site's data for commercial

0:43.8

purposes without a licensing agreement, violating user data policy. The lawsuit references a

0:50.1

2021 Anthropic research paper that details the usefulness of Reddit data in AI model training.

0:56.4

Reddit has licensing deals with OpenAI in Google, but said it had tried and failed to reach

1:01.8

an agreement with Anthropic. A spokeswoman for Anthropics that the company disagrees with

1:06.4

Reddit's claims and will defend itself vigorously. Meta is in talks with Disney, A-24, and other smaller production companies to feature exclusive

1:15.9

content on its new premium virtual reality headset to be launched next year.

1:21.2

That's according to people familiar with the matter.

1:23.6

The new device, known internally as Loma, is set to rival Apple's Vision Pro. Meta is offering

1:29.2

millions of dollars for episodic and standalone immersive video based on well-known intellectual

1:34.6

property. A meta spokesman referred to comments by its CTO about the company working on many

1:40.0

prototypes, not all of which go into production. And Crowdstrike says it's cooperating with

1:46.4

federal authorities in connection with an incident last July, when a bug in the company's software

1:51.6

knocked millions of computers offline. The outage delayed thousands of flights, broke back-end

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